2004 SVT COBRA – THE TERMINATOR

When the 2003 Cobra came out it was my dream car. I saved for a year until the 2004 and picked one up when my wife said “let’s do it”, so we did. It was my first taste of a supercharger and wow, it was like nothing I had ever felt before. It was like having a never ending bottle of NOS with instant torque. And for all those Car & Driver journalists out there who don’t like supercharger whine, find something else to whine about because it is the sh*t!  I can’t get enough of it, sounds like a jet engine mixed with a sweet deep V8 sound. It doesn’t get any better. Funny thing is they actually like the sound of the porsche engine though, to me it sounds like a couple coffee cans bangin around, ha!

MODS ROUND 1: Flowmaster Exhaust, Steeda CAI, Hypertech Programmer (P.S. Never buy a hypertech, they suck and are very limited, for the same price you can get a much more capable tuner like the Diablosport Predator.

MODS ROUND 2: 3.0″ Pulley, Runnin with the Devil Tune (diablosport predator), 315W NITTO 555R ( Totally resolved the wicked wheel hop issue it had developed), Kenny Brown rear brace ( total waste of money, it had wheel hop even worse.) Accufab Throttle body (throttle response was amazing compared to stock)

MODS ROUND 3: 2.90 pulley and revised tune and belts, and finally a 2.80 Pulley with yet again another tune with dyno time. If you have an 03-04 cobra just do the 2.8 with a smaller belt, with 12-14psi that motor ran just fine and it just ripped down the street! Roughly 518 RWTQ was what it ended up with.

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